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San Vito lo Capo

he history of San Vito Lo Capo revolves around the current sanctuary, built for the first time around 300. This first building was a small chapel dedicated to San Vito Martyr, patron of a fishing village.
According to legend, the young Vito was born in Mazzara del Vallo, was forced to leave the country to escape the persecution of the Emperor Diocletian after converting to Christianity. He was accompanied by the nurse Crescentia. Vito in desperate escape, only twenty years old, he died due to a landslide that buried the village in which the young man and his nurse had sought shelter.

Also according to the myth of Saint Crescentia, turning to look at the city collapsed and became stone in the same spot where now stands the chapel, which the locals still believe in the magic miracles.
As time grew the fame of the church and the "miracles" attributed to the martyr and Saint Crescentia Vitus, and so, to accommodate the many faithfuls who came on pilgrimage, the original construction went transformed into a fortress / accommodation.

This activity dates back to 400.
Meanwhile, the dangers of increased incursions of Barbary pirates, just off the coast of the island began to be built several towers. The sanctuary was provided by a tower. 700 began to appear at the beginning of the first houses all around the building and at the end of the century, around the church there was already a small group of houses.